Fernanda Torres at the Golden Globes earlier this month

Academy Award nominee Fernanda Torres is apologising after a 17-year-old clip of her in blackface recently resurfaced.

The star of I’m Still Here issued a lengthy apology to Deadline on Sunday, following backlash over a 2008 sketch she appeared in on the long-running Brazilian television show Fantastico.

Fernanda, who is in the running for the Best Actress prize at this year’s Oscars, wrote: “Almost twenty years ago, I appeared in........

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